Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 55059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 275(@200wpm)___ 220(@250wpm)___ 184(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 55059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 275(@200wpm)___ 220(@250wpm)___ 184(@300wpm)
With the slick slide of his body covering her, it brought more memories to the forefront of her mind as past and present unfolded like a tight bud blooming to reveal a flower of such outstanding beauty that it couldn’t be seen with the human eye.
The movements of Ryu’s body within her had her sighing at first with pain then of pleasure. She had felt this mind-numbing desire for Ryu before in their past life, forgetting about it in this one until this moment. Their passion had been banked, smoldering, and never truly forgotten, but ready and waiting to be sparked to life once again.
They never left the bed, yet she felt herself soaring high in the sky, held safely in Ryu’s arms as her body responded to his thrusts by clasping her thighs tightly around his hips to hold on as they soared higher. Then, with a rumbling groan, he released them from the coiled tension binding them together to let them fall safely back to reality as they were finally mated and bound, body, mind, and spirit, in this life for all eternity.
“Ryu?” she whispered his name into the glow of the lamp-lighted room while running her hand across his sweat-beaded chest.
He turned his head on the pillow to look at her. “Yes?”
“Itako was right, wasn’t she?” Eira said the words her heart knew to be true when she’d first heard them but were only now confirmed. “We’re soulmates as well. Our souls have intertwined in this life and in our last.”
“No,” Ryu said, lightly shaking his head as he held her loving gaze with his fiercely. “We’ve been soulmates in every life.”
Eira hadn’t taken the sleeping potion tonight, as she was told it was no longer needed. So, why was her slumber stirred when those strange blue-green eyes entered her dreams?
This nightmare, however, was different, as she took up the girl named Chloe’s body. Flashes of her life, like a picture book flipped, appeared before her eyes, and she quickly understood that the wickedly beautiful man named Lucca was actually her lover and was never her enemy at all.
In fact, his method to claim her hadn’t been that much different than Ryu staking his claim over Eira at all …
… She stiffened when he went lower, kissing the scars across her abdomen.
“Beautiful,” he murmured as his tongue wiped every memory of Lucifer inflicting them on her. “I’m never going to let anyone hurt you again, baby.”
Chloe’s breath hitched at the sight and the words he had spoken. How does someone like him exist?
“I know you won’t.” Her trust in him was unbreakable.
The fire burned hotter than ever when he slid his mouth lower until his bearded lips hovered over her center. “I’m going to have to go to confession,” he told her. “God is going to damn me to hell for what I’m about to do.”
“W-Wha—”
With the tip of his tongue, he parted her flesh and swiped up and down her slit.
Chloe jumped at the startling sensation, her head falling back and her legs beginning to shake.
He pressed his arm into her thighs, holding her still. Groaning, he then pressed his mouth closer. “A taste of you … is worth a lifetime in hell.”
When he increased the pressure of his mouth against her, Chloe felt him sliding his tongue inside of her in quick licks, and then deeper as he became more demanding, more hungered.
Lifting one of her legs over his shoulder, he plunged his tongue into her writhing body.
Oh my God. She began panting. “Take me with you …”
… So, when she woke from her sleep and re-entered this life, she wholly understood.
Those dreams had never been nightmares at all but memories of their past life as Eira and Ryu were once Chloe and Lucca. It had been a good, fulfilling life, with a happy marriage and children, but she knew in her heart that this one was only going to be better.
She also knew instinctively that would be the last time she’d dream of their past, and now she would only ever dream about their wonderful future.
31
Ugly Things
When Eira found herself waking alone, it took her a minute to remember that Ryu had told her early in the morning that he had to take care of a few things and that he should be back before she even awoke.
“Guess not,” she mumbled, rubbing her eyes. She was simply exhausted and decided she was going to take it easy today. She wished Ryu could do the same, but she figured he still had duties, considering he was to be the future king. All she knew was that they would be crowned in the coming weeks now that they were wed.
Everyone figured it would be best not to overwhelm her with a wedding and a coronation. She was grateful for that, and she hoped they’d give her a few days before the topic would be breached.